The Kansas Coalition for Life on Tuesday announced a petition drive to urge Gov. Sam Brownback to call a special session of the Legislature to approve a bill that would ban abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detectable, which can be as early as seven weeks.

Mark Gietzen, chairman of the Kansas Coalition for Life, said the proposal would ban 85 percent of abortions in the state.

Gietzen is working to get petitions with at least 15,000 signatures on Brownback’s desk. “As soon as the people of Kansas show our lawmakers that we want Heartbeat Legislation passed, there is no doubt in my mind that the current Legislature will do it … especially since 2012 is an election year for both the House and the Senate,” Gietzen said.

He noted that legislators and Brownback during the session that ended in May approved several major abortion bills that are now law.

Without getting into the abortion debate ..... I would like to know how the hell do they think a special session should be paid for ..... with legislators, staff and everything else, it costs $40-$50,000 a day.

I am not a abortion supporter but I think it should be rare that the state calls a special session ... and then it should be because of a crisis situation. Not something that could be proposed the next legislative session.

Every day, I wake up and wonder what more bizarre st will be coming out of the Kansas State house. It's unsettling and surreal to be living in this state right now. I want to be like Dorothy and wake up with Toto in my arms, finding out that it was all a bad dream. I want life to be normal again.
I hate feeling like I'm living in an Orwell novel.